Yesha`yahu, starting at chapter 46
{46:1} Bel bows down, Nevo stoops; their idols are on the animals,
and on the cattle: the things that you carried about are made a load,
a burden to the weary [animal]. {46:2} They stoop, they bow down
together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone
into captivity. {46:3} Listen to me, house of Ya`akov, and all the
remnant of the house of Yisra'el, that have been borne [by me] from
their birth, that have been carried from the womb; {46:4} and even to
old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made,
and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver. {46:5} To whom
will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be
like? {46:6} Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the
balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down
-- yes, they worship. {46:7} They bear it on the shoulder, they carry
it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall
not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him
out of his trouble. {46:8} Remember this, and show yourselves men;
bring it again to mind, you transgressors. {46:9} Remember the former
things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and
there is none like me; {46:10} declaring the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My
counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; {46:11} calling a
ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country;
yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I
will also do it. {46:12} Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far
from righteousness: {46:13} I bring near my righteousness, it shall
not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place
salvation in Tziyon for Yisra'el my glory.
{47:1} Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Bavel; sit
on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Kasdim: for you shall
no more be called tender and delicate. {47:2} Take the millstones, and
grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg,
pass through the rivers. {47:3} Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare
no man. {47:4} Our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy
One of Yisra'el. {47:5} Sit you silent, and get you into darkness,
daughter of the Kasdim; for you shall no more be called The mistress
of kingdoms. {47:6} I was angry with my people, I profaned my
inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you did show them no mercy;
on the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke. {47:7} You said, I
shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to
your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it. {47:8} Now
therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely,
who say in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I
shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
{47:9} but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day,
the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they
come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great
abundance of your enchantments. {47:10} For you have trusted in your
wickedness; you have said, None sees me; your wisdom and your
knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I
am, and there is none else besides me. {47:11} Therefore shall evil
come on you; you shall not know the dawning of it: and mischief shall
fall on you; you shall not be able to put it away: and desolation
shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know. {47:12} Stand now
with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in
which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to
profit, if so be you may prevail. {47:13} You are wearied in the
multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers,
the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things
that shall come on you. {47:14} Behold, they shall be as stubble; the
fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power
of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit
before. {47:15} Thus shall the things be to you in which you have
labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall
wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.
{48:1} Hear you this, house of Ya`akov, who are called by the name
of Yisra'el, and are come forth out of the waters of Yehudah; who
swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of
Yisra'el, but not in truth, nor in righteousness {48:2} (for they call
themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of
Yisra'el; the LORD of Hosts is his name): {48:3} I have declared the
former things from of old; yes, they went forth out of my mouth, and I
shown them: suddenly I did them, and they happened. {48:4} Because I
knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your
brow brass; {48:5} therefore I have declared it to you from of old;
before it came to pass I shown it you; lest you should say, My idol
has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has
commanded them. {48:6} You have heard it; see all this; and you, will
you not declare it? I have shown you new things from this time, even
hidden things, which you have not known. {48:7} They are created now,
and not from of old; and before this day you didn't hear them; lest
you should say, Behold, I knew them. {48:8} Yes, you didn't hear; yes,
you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew
that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor
from the womb. {48:9} For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and
for my praise will I refrain for you, that I not cut you off. {48:10}
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in
the furnace of affliction. {48:11} For my own sake, for my own sake,
will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory I
will not give to another. {48:12} Listen to me, O Ya`akov, and
Yisra'el my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
{48:13} Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the [1>]eretz[<1], and
my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they
stand up together. {48:14} Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who
among them has declared these things? He whom the LORD loves shall
perform his pleasure on Bavel, and his arm [shall be on] the Kasdim.
{48:15} I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought
him, and he shall make his way prosperous. {48:16} Come you near to
me, hear you this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD has sent
me, and his Spirit. {48:17} Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the
Holy One of Yisra'el: I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to
profit, who leads you by the way that you should go. {48:18} Oh that
you had listened to my [2>]mitzvot[<2]! then had your shalom been as a
river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: {48:19} your
seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your loins like
the grains of it: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from
before me. {48:20} Go you forth from Bavel, flee you from the Kasdim;
with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the
end of the [3>]eretz[<3]: say you, the LORD has redeemed his servant
Ya`akov. {48:21} They didn't thirst when he led them through the
deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he
split the rock also, and the waters gushed out. {48:22} There is no
shalom, says the LORD, to the wicked.
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Footnotes:
[1] {48:13} earth
[2] {48:18} commandments
[3] {48:20} earth
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